Bill Text: TX SB2271 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the filing fee required for certain candidates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to State Affairs [SB2271 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2271-Introduced.html
By: Hughes | S.B. No. 2271 | |
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relating to the filing fee required for certain candidates. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 172.024, Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 172.024. FILING FEE. (a) The filing fee for a | ||
candidate for nomination in the general primary election is as | ||
follows: | ||
(1) United States senator$10,000 [ |
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(2) office elected statewide, except United States | ||
senator7,500 [ |
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(3) United States representative6,250 [ |
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(4) state senator2,500 [ |
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(5) state representative1,500 [ |
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(6) member, State Board of Education600 [ |
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(7) chief justice or justice, court of appeals, other | ||
than a justice specified by Subdivision (8)3,750 [ |
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(8) chief justice or justice of a court of appeals that | ||
serves a court of appeals district in which a county with a | ||
population of more than one million is wholly or partly | ||
situated5,000 [ |
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(9) district judge or judge specified by Section | ||
52.092(d) for which this schedule does not otherwise prescribe a | ||
fee3,000 [ |
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(10) district or criminal district judge of a court in | ||
a judicial district wholly contained in a county with a population | ||
of more than 1.5 million5,000 [ |
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(11) judge, statutory county court, other than a judge | ||
specified by Subdivision (12)3,000 [ |
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(12) judge of a statutory county court in a county with | ||
a population of more than 1.5 million5,000 [ |
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(13) district attorney, criminal district attorney, | ||
or county attorney performing the duties of a district | ||
attorney2,500 [ |
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(14) county commissioner, district clerk, county | ||
clerk, sheriff, county tax assessor-collector, county treasurer, | ||
or judge, constitutional county court: | ||
(A) county with a population of 200,000 or | ||
more2,500 [ |
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(B) county with a population of under | ||
200,0001,500 [ |
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(15) justice of the peace or constable: | ||
(A) county with a population of 200,000 or | ||
more2,000 [ |
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(B) county with a population of under | ||
200,000750 [ |
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(16) county surveyor150 [ |
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(17) office of the county government for which this | ||
schedule does not otherwise prescribe a fee1,500 [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |